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Spore

Spore is a multi-genre massive single-player online metaverse video game
developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. The game was released
September 5, 2008 in Europe, Japan, South America and New Zealand, and was
released on September 7, 2008 in North America and Asia Pacific
territories. The game can also be directly downloaded from Electronic
Arts.

Features

Spore allows players to control the evolution of a species from its
beginnings as a unicellular organism, through deve…

Spore

Spore is a multi-genre massive single-player online metaverse video game
developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. The game was released
September 5, 2008 in Europe, Japan, South America and New Zealand, and was
released on September 7, 2008 in North America and Asia Pacific
territories. The game can also be directly downloaded from Electronic
Arts.

Features

Spore allows players to control the evolution of a species from its
beginnings as a unicellular organism, through development as an intelligent
and social creature, to interstellar exploration as a space faring culture.
The game is broken up into consistent and dependent ‘phases’, where the end
of one ‘phase’ affects the initial condition of the next phase for the
player. Every phase has its own style of play and becomes increasingly
complicated as players progress through the game. Players are allowed to
accelerate or skip phases altogether. Some phases feature optional
missions; when the player completes a mission, they are granted a bonus,
such as a new ability. Also, players can ‘respawn’ their species at home
base in the case that all the player’s creations are destroyed. Spore is
known as a ‘massively single-player online game’ as the creations developed
by players will be entered automatically into a central database and
catalogued and rated for quality and then re-distributed to populate other
players' games. Furthermore, players can visit other players’ planets
upon reaching the space phase. Here, players can interact with other
players' species, tribes and civilizations. Additionally, via a
‘MySpore’ page, players can receive statistics on how their creatures are
faring in other players’ games. Personalities of the species created by the
user are dependent on how the user has played them. The game platform is
Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and iPod. It has a single player mode and falls
under the genre of god game, life simulation and real-time strategy.